Man reported stabbed in parking lot on Lincoln Street, Worcester

WORCESTER — Bystanders said a man was stabbed in the parking lot of the shopping center at 560 Lincoln St. on Monday afternoon.

One person standing nearby when it happened said the victim struggled with at least one assailant before getting stabbed in the face and back. That witness said the person who stabbed the man drove away in a pickup truck. Another person didn't see the victim get stabbed, but saw a man who appeared to be bleeding heavily in the parking lot. A third bystander saw the victim get put on a stretcher and taken away by ambulance.

Crime scene tape was set up around a Honda Accord sedan in the parking lot before the car was towed away around 6:30 p.m.

Around the same time, police converged on an apartment building off nearby Pleasant Valley Drive. Detectives, patrolmen and officers in the gang unit and crime scene unit walked the property and waited by the front door. A green Mazda pickup truck was later towed from the parking lot. It was not clear Monday night if the two incidents were related; police did not immediately respond to a request for details.